# Alice Kennion

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{{short description|English amateur golfer}}
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'''Alice Marion Kennion''' ({{nee}} Kenyon-Stow, 6 August 1876 – 5 April 1952) was an English amateur golfer. She was a surprise winner of the 1906 [Women's Amateur Championship](/source/Women's_Amateur_Championship) at [Burnham & Berrow Golf Club](/source/Burnham_%26_Berrow_Golf_Club). She was the first married woman to win the championship.

== Golf career ==
Kennion first learnt to play golf at Wimbledon, later playing for the Brighton and Hove club. She was only an irregular competitor in the [Women's Amateur Championship](/source/Women's_Amateur_Championship) but, in 1906, became the first married woman to win the championship.<ref>{{cite news |title=The champion and the medalists |work=The Gentlewoman |date=26 May 1906 |page=787 |access-date=10 October 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/19060526/110/0022 |via=[British Newspaper Archive](/source/British_Newspaper_Archive) |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Kennion played in the 1896 championship at the [Royal Liverpool Golf Club](/source/Royal_Liverpool_Golf_Club) at [Hoylake](/source/Hoylake). Playing out of the Wimbledon club she won her early matches easily, Winning her first round match 8&7 and then winning 6&5 and 7&6 on the second day.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=J2NEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2500%2C3834827 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=13 May 1896 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KGNEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3632%2C3950191 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=14 May 1896 |page=11}}</ref> On the third day she beat Miss Latham 5&3 but lost to [Katherine Moeller](/source/Katherine_Moeller) 4&3 in the quarter-finals.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KWNEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3195%2C4059721 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=15 May 1896 |page=11}}</ref>

Kennion played in the 1905 championship at Royal Cromer, losing 3&2 in the third round to Scottish international [Madge Maitland](/source/Madge_Maitland).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pclAAAAAIBAJ&pg=2686%2C145527 |title=The ladies' championship |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=1 June 1905 |page=13}}</ref>

The 1906 Women's Amateur Championship was played at [Burnham & Berrow](/source/Burnham_%26_Berrow_Golf_Club). Kennion was representing the Brighton club. In the first round she beat Miss Gowan from the home club, 3&2.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PdNAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6858%2C1779429 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=[The Glasgow Herald](/source/The_Glasgow_Herald) |page=10 |date=16 May 1906}}</ref> On the second day she beat Mrs Wood 4&3 and Mrs Storry 6&5.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PtNAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5071%2C1917560 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=[The Glasgow Herald](/source/The_Glasgow_Herald) |page=12 |date=17 May 1906}}</ref> She beat Miss Pearce on the third morning and met [Florence Hezlet](/source/Florence_Hezlet) in the quarter-finals in the afternoon. Kennion was two down with four to play but won the 15th and 18th and then won the match at the first extra hole.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P9NAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5787%2C2054666 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=[The Glasgow Herald](/source/The_Glasgow_Herald) |page=13 |date=18 May 1906}}</ref> In the semi-finals she beat [Dorothy Campbell](/source/Dorothy_Campbell) 3&1 and then beat [Bertha Thompson](/source/Bertha_Thompson) 4&3 in the final.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QNNAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6718%2C2188369 |title=Ladies' championship |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=19 May 1906 |page=11}}</ref>

Kennion played for England in the 1910 [Women's Home Internationals](/source/Women's_Home_Internationals) at [Westward Ho!](/source/Westward_Ho!), losing all her three matches, and then lost in the first round of the championship, 3&2 to Miss Saunderson.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7ctAAAAAIBAJ&pg=1504%2C7372606 |title=Ladies' championship meeting |newspaper=[The Glasgow Herald](/source/The_Glasgow_Herald) |page=12 |date=30 April 1910}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Kennion was born in August 1876 in  [Blackheath, Kent](/source/Blackheath%2C_Kent), the daughter of Frederick Melkington Kenyon-Stow, an army officer, and his wife Alice Millicent {{nee}} Peat.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86840574/the-pall-mall-gazette/ |title=Kenyon-Stow |newspaper=[The Pall Mall Gazette](/source/The_Pall_Mall_Gazette) |date=9 August 1876 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In April 1900 she married Captain [Roger Lloyd Kennion](/source/Roger_Lloyd_Kennion).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86848267/the-morning-post/ |title=Kennion – Kenyon-Stow |newspaper=[The Morning Post](/source/The_Morning_Post) |date=20 Apr 1900 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Kennion was an officer in the [British Indian Army](/source/British_Indian_Army). Roger Kennion died in March 1942.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=kennion&yearOfDeath=1942&page=1#calendar |publisher=probatesearch.service.gov.uk |title=Find a will |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref> Alice Kennion died in April 1952.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=kennion&yearOfDeath=1952&page=2#calendar |publisher=probatesearch.service.gov.uk |title=Find a will |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216928161/alice-marion-kennion |title=Alice Marion Kenyon-Stow Kennion |publisher=Find a Grave |access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref> She had a daughter Iris born in India in 1901 and a son Wilfred born in England in 1904.

==Team appearances==
*[Women's Home Internationals](/source/Women's_Home_Internationals) (representing England): 1910

==References==
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Category:English female golfers
Category:Amateur golfers
Category:People from Blackheath, London
Category:Sportspeople from the London Borough of Lewisham
Category:1876 births
Category:1952 deaths

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